Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

Re:Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta by cing on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:43PM (#5633733)

Great to see another product in this space (https://www.scigit.com/ launched not too long ago). As far as writing papers, my old-fashioned P.I. will probably never budge from Microsoft Word, so Google Docs is the best solution at the moment. The fact that they have "Google Scholar" integration for inserting citations into the editor makes it pretty much a no brainer for writing a draft.

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Re:Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta by beambot on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @03:18PM (#5634312)

Yikes! What field are you in? For most STEM folks, TeX seems to be pretty standard. I'd really love to see a collaborative TeX editor (web based?). Better yet... a collaborative emacs!

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Re:Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta by cing on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @03:44PM (#5634457)

I'm in biology. The journals Nature and Science both specify that Microsoft Word is their preferred format for submissions and I'd be surprised if lots of others still do. Collaborative online TeX editors have been featured on HN before (https://www.writelatex.com/, https://www.sharelatex.com/).

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Re:Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta by reeses on Thursday May 02, 2013 @01:01AM (#5642655)

Rule 34 existed for emacs well before it did for pr0n.

Rudel (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Rudel) is one example of collaborative editing in emacs.

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Re:Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta by twog on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @03:40PM (#5634435)

TeX is what we are supporting currently, and should be launching shortly. If you drop me an email at toni (at) banyan.co, I will get you beta access in the next few days to our git powered, collaborative latex editor.

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Re:Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta by cben on Friday May 03, 2013 @07:18PM (#5653215)

collaborative web based TeX: sharelatex.com, writelatex.com, spandex.io.

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Re:Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta by twog on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @01:45PM (#5633756)

Thanks for pointing out scigit, Im a big fan of what they are doing. We dont support Word yet, but I do recognize that older P.I. / professors wont leave Word easily/ever. We have some solutions on the way for that.

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Re:Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta by gehar on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @02:11PM (#5633913)

The easiest solution is to wait 10 years.

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Re:Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta by davecap1 on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @05:55PM (#5635126)

Your old-fashioned P.I. has written his fair share of papers in LaTeX thank you very much! :)

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